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^ * ISSUED SSMI'irEKKL^ l. m grist's 80H8. PobUthen. | % #?ilg Demspapet;: 4[or th< fromotion of th< political, Social, ^jriwUural and Commercial Interests of (kg feoplg. ( K"V,;"o"i0Soiy'rivJ" p ESTABLISHED 1855. YQRK VILLE, S. C., FRfDAY, MARCH 1371914. JSfO. 9l7 | SEVEN ] ... BALE { BY EARL DE t | Copyright, 1913 by the Bobbe-M CHAPTER XII. The Cold, Gray Dawr. It was still quite dark when he * awoke with a start. In the blackness he could make out a figure standing by the side of his bed. He put his hand quickly beneath his pillow?the package was still there. "What do you want?" he asked, sitting up in bed. Vrt,- nn answer the intruder sprang % through the door and disappeared in the darkness of the outer room. Mr. Magee followed. One of his windows slammed back and forth in the wind. Slipping on a dressing gown and lighting a candle, he made an investlga^ tion. The glass above the lock had been broken. Outside, in the snow on the balcony, were recent footprints. Sleepily, Mr. Magee procured the precious package and put it in the pocket of his gown. Then drawing on his shoes he added a great coat to 0 his equipment, took a candle and went out on the balcony. Mr. Magee followed the footprints along the east side of the inn to the corner, then along the more sheltered ^ rear and finally to the west side. On the west was a rather unlovely annex to the main building, which increasing patronage had made necessary. Mr. Magee made his way to the door of the annex. It was locked. But as he turned away he heard voices on the other side. Mr. Magee had barely enough time to extinguish his candle and slip into ' * - * Tho itnnr me snauows ui uic winu. ?..v ? ? of (he annex opened. A man stepped out into the passageway. He stood H there. The light from a candle held by some one in the doorway whom Mr. Magee could not see fell full upon his face?the bespectacled, wise face of Professor Thaddeus Bolton. "Better luck next time," said the ^ professor. "Keep an eye on him." said the voice from inside. "If he tries to leave the inn there'll be a big row. We must be in on it?and win." "I imagine," said Professor Bolton, smiling his academic smile, "that the inmates of Baldpate will make tomorrow a rather interesting day for him." "It will be an interesting day for every one," answered the voice. "If I should manage to secure the package by any chance." the professor ? went on. "I shall undoubtedly need your help in getting away with it. Let us arrange a signal. Should a window of my room be open at any time tomorrow you will know the money is in my hands." "Very good," replied the other. "CJood night?and good luck." The old man moved ofT down tne passageway. After him crept Mr. Magee. He followed the professor to the east balcony and saw him pause at the open window of No. 7. There the old man looked slyly about, as though in doubt He peered into the room and one foot was across the sill when Mr. Magee came up and touched him on the arm. Professor Bolton leaped in evident fright out upon the balcony. "It's?it's a wonderful night," he said. "1 was out for a little walk on the balcony enjoying It. Seeing your open window I was afraid"? ? "The night you speak so highly of," replied Mr. Magee. "is at your left. You have lost your way. Good night, professor." He stepped inside and closed the ? window. Then he pulled down the curtains in both rooms of his suit and spent some time exploring. Fnally he paused before the fireplace, and with the aid of a knife unloosed a ' brick. Under this he placed the package of money, removing the traces of u/>t qc huut hp rnnlri "They can't play without me?I've got the ball," he repeated, with a r smile. And, safe in this thought, he closed his eyes and slumbered. The gayest night must have a morning after. Mr. Magee awakened to his. and to find suit 7 wrapped again in its favorite polar atmosphere. Filling the door leading to the outer room, he be^ held the cause.of his awakening?the mayor of Iteuton. Mr. Cargan regarded him with the cold steely eye of a Disraeli in action, but when he spoke he opened the jaws of a cocktail mixer. "Well, young fellow," he remarked, "it seems to me it was time you got up and faced the responsibilities of the day. First of which, I may mention, ^ is a little talk with me." He stepped into the room, and through the doorway he vacated Mr. Max came slinking. The unlovely face of the foe of suspicion was badly bruised, and he looked upon the world * with no cherful eye. "You used us pretty rough last night in the snow," Cargan went on. "That's why I ain't disposed to go in for kid gloves and diplomacy this morning. It's my experience that when you're dealing with a man who's got good old Irish name of Magee it's best to hit first and debate afterward." "1?I used you rough, Mr. Car gan?" said Magee. "Nil debate, mind you." protested the mayor. "lam and me are making this morning call to inquire after a little package that went astray somewhere last night. There's two courses open to you?hand over the package or let us take it. I'll give you a tip? the first is the best. If we have to take it we might get real rough in our actions." Mr. Max slipped closer to the bed. I an ugly look on his face. The mayor glared fixedly into Magee's eyes. The knight who fought for fair ladies in the snow lay on his pillow and considered briefly. "1 get what I go after." remarked t'argan emphatically. "Yes," sparred Magee, "but the real point is keeping what you get after you've gone after it. You didn't make much of sin impression on me last night in that line. Mr. Cargan." KEYS TO ] (PATE... RR BIGGERS ? errill Company. ^ ?oo "I never cared much for humor." replied the mayor, "especially at this early hour of the morning." "And I hate a fresh guy," put in nnlonn " *ua line pviovn. "I'm not fresh," Mr. Magee smiled. "I'm stating facts. You say you've come for that package. All right? but you've come to the wrong room. I haven't got it." "The h? you haven't!" roared the mayor. "Lou. look about a bit." "Look about all you like," ugreed Magee. "You won't find it. Mr. Cargan, I admit that I laid for you last night. I saw you open the safe according to the latest approved methods. and I saw you come forth with a package of money. But I wasn't rough with you. I might have been, to be frank, but somebody beat me to it." "Who?" "The man with the seventh key, I suppose?that man Bland heard walkin about last night when we were at '-*11 i?nn qpp Ullllltrr. U\MI 1 irn m*r jvu MiMit V wwv him in that mixup at the foot of the steps." "Well. I did think there was another guy," the mayor answered, "but Lou said I was crazy." "Lou does you an injustice. There was another guy, and if you are anxious to recover your precious package. I advise you to wake him up to the responsibilities of the day, not me." The mayor considered. Mr. Max, who had hastily made the rounds of the three rooms, came back with empty hands. "Well," said the mayor, "I might as well admit it?I'm up in the air. I don't know just at this minute where to get off. But that state of affairs don't lust long with me, young fellow. I'll go to the bottom of this before the day is out, believe me. And if I can't do anything else I'll take you back to Reuton myself and throw you in Jail for robbery." "I wouldn't do that," smiled Magee. "Think of the awful job of explaining to the white necktie crowd how you happened to be dynumiting a safe on Raldpate mountuin at midnight." "Oh, I guess I can get around that," said the mayor. "That money belongs to a friend of mine?Andy Rutter. I happen to go to the inn for a little rest and 1 grab you dynamiting the safe. I'll keep an eye on you today, Mr. Magee. And let me tell you now that if I catch you or any of the bunch that's with you trying to make a getaway from Baldpate there's going to be a war break out." "I don't know about the other hermits," laughed Magee, "but personally 1 expect to be here for several weeks to come, wnew: IIS com in nere. Where's the hermit? Why hasn't he been up to tlx my Are?" "Yes, where is he?" repeated Mr. Cargan. "That's what everybody'd like to know. He hasn't shown up. Not a sign of breakfast, and me as hollow as a reformer's victory." "He's backslid," cried Magee. "The quitter," sneered Max. "It's only a qutter would live on the mountain in a shack anyhow." "You're rather hard on poor old Peters," remarked Magee, "but when I think that I have to get up and dress in a refrigerating plant I can't say I blame you. If only the fire were lighted"? He smiled his most ingratiating smiie on nis companion. "By the way, Mr. Cargan, you're up and dressed. I've read a lot of magazine articles about you, and they one and all agree that you're a good fellow. You'll find kindling and paper beside the hearth." "What!" The mayor's roar seemed to shake the windows. "Young man, with a nerve like yours, you could wheedle the price of a battleship from Carnegie. 1?I"? He stood for a moment gazing almost in awe at Magee. Then he burst forth into a whole souled laugh. "I am a good fellow," he said. "I'll show you." He went into the other room and despite the horrified protests of Lou Max, busied himself amid the ashes of the fireplace. When he had a blaze under way Mr. Magee came shivering from the other room and held out his hand. "Mr. Cargan," he laughed, "you're a prince." He noted with interest that the mayor's broad shoes were mighty near $200,000. While Mr. Magee drew on his clothes, the mayor ana Max sat thoughtfully before the fire, the former with his pudgy hands folded over the vast expanse where no breakfast renosed. Mr. Magee explained to them that the holder of the sixth key had arrived. "A handsome young lady." lie remarked. "Her name is M.vra Thornhill." "Old Henry Thornhill's daughter," reflected the mayor. "Well, seems I've sort of lost the habit of being surprised now. I tell you. Ism, we're breaking into the orchid division up here." While Mr. Mugee shaved?in ice cold water, another black mark against the hermit of Haldpate?he turned over in his mind the events of the night before. He was ready to descend at last and came int > the parlor of his suit with great coat and hat. In reply to Mr. Cargan's unasked question, he said: "I'm going up the mountain presently to reason with our striking cook." "You ain't going to leave this inn. Magee," said the mayor. "Not even to bring back a cook! Come, Mr. Cargan. be reasonable. You may go with me if you suspect my motives." They went out in the hall and Mr. Magee passed down the corridor to the farther end, where he rapped on the door of Miss Thornhill's room. She appeared almost immediately, buried beneath furs and wraps. "You must be nearly frozen," re marked Mr. Magee pityingly. "You and your maid come down to the office. 1 want you to meet the other guests." "I'll come," she replied. "Mr. Magee, I've a confession to make. I invented the maid. It seemed so horridly unconventional and shocking? I couldn't admit that I was alone. That was why I wouldn't let you build a fire for me." "Don't worry," smiled Magee. "You will find we have all the conveniences up here. I'll present you to a chaperon shortly?a Mrs. Norton, who is here with her daughter. Allow me to introduce Mr. Cargan and Mr. Max. The girl bowed with a rather startled air. and Mr. Cargan mumbled something that had "pleasure" in it. In the office they found Professor Bolton and Mr. Bland sitting gloomily before the fireplace. "Got the news, Magee?" asked the haberdasher. "Peters has done a disappearing act." It was evident to Magee that everybody looked upon Peters as his crea lure aim laiu iiie neniiii b aiuo at mo door. He laughed. "I'm going to head a search party shortly," he said. "Don't I detect the odor of coffee in the distance?" "Mrs. Norton," remarked Professor Bolton dolefully, "has kindly consented to do what she can." The gir! of the station came through the dining room door. It was evident she had no share in the general gloom that the hermit's absence cast over Baldpate. Her eyes were bright with the glories of morning on u mountain. In their depth there was no room for petty annoyances. "Good morning." she said to Mr. Magee. "Isn't It bracing? Have you been outside? Oh, I"? "Miss Norton?Miss Thornhtll," explained Magee. "Miss Thornhill has the sixth key, you know. She came last night without any of us knowing." With lukewarm smiles, the two girls shook hands. Outwardly the glances they exchanged were nonchalant and casual, but somehow Mr. Magee felt that among the matters they established were social position, wit. cunning, guile and taste in dress. When the rather unsatisfactory substitute for breakfast was consumed. Mr. Magee rose briskly. "Now," he said, "I'm going to run up to the hermit's shuck and reason with him as best I can. I shall paint in touching colors our sad plight. If the man has an atom of decency"? "A walk on the mountain in the morning," said Miss Thornhlll quickly. "Splendid. I"? "Wonderful," put in Miss Norton. "I for one. can't resist. Even though I haven't been invited. I'm going along." She amlled sweetly. She had beaten the other girl by the breadth of a hair, and she knew it. Now glories shown in her eyes. "Good for you!" said Magee. The evil hour of explanations was at hand surely. "Run up and get your things." While Miss Norton was gone, Mr. Cargan and Lou Max engaged in earnest converse near a window. After which Mr. Max pulled on his overcoat. "I ain't been invited either," he said, "but I reckon I'll go along. I always wanted to see what a hermit lived like when he's really buckled down to the hermit business. And then a walk in the morning has always been my first rule for health. You don't mind, do you?" "Who am I," asked Magee, "that I should stand between you and health? Come along by all means." The three went out through the front door and found under the snow a hint of a path that led to the shack of the post card merchant. "Will vou go ahead?" asked Magee of Max. "Sorry," grinned Max. "but I guess I'll bring up the rear." "Suspicion,said Magee, shaking his head, "has caused a lot of trouble in a world. Remember the cruelty practiced on Pueblo Sam?" "I do." replied Mr. Max. "and it nearly breaks my heart. But there's a little matter I forgot to mention last night. Suspicion is all right in its place." "Where's that?" asked Mr. Magee. Mr. Max tapped his narrow chest. "Here," he said. So the three began the climb, Mr. Magee and the girl ahead. Mr. Max leering at their heels. Covertly Mr. Magee glanced at the girl striding along by his side. The red tlamed in her cheeks; her long lashes were flecked with the white of the snow; her face was such a one as middle aged men dream of while their fat wives read the evening paper's beauty hints at their side. Far beyond the ordinary woman was she desirable and pleasing. Mr. Magee told himself he had been a fool, for he who had fought so valiantly for her heart's desire at the foot of the steps had faltered when the time came to hand her the prize. Why? What place had caution in the wild scheme of the night before? None surely. And yet he. dolt, idiot, coward, had in the moment of triumph turned cautious. Full confession, he decided, was was Full confession, he decided, was the only way out. CTo be Continued.) Tallest Jail in the World.?Plans are practically completed for a sky scraper jail which the city will erect on the site of the old Tenderloin police station in Thirtieth street near Sixth avenue. The building will be 14 stories tall, and acording to Griffin & Wynkoop, who made the plans, will cost about $450,000. That sum was appropriated for the structure by the board of estimate at the suggestion of former Borough President McAneny. Some of the city officials are active now in an effort to have the legislature pass a bill limiting the height of buildings in this city, but they hope to get the new city jail under way before such a law goes into effect. This jail will be the highest building of its kind in the world. It will have a frontage of 75 feet and a depth of 100 feet. It is planned chiefly for the care of women prisoners. Several floors will be given over to court rooms, detention rooms and offices for those in the charities department who look after the welfare of women prisoners. The building will be of limestone, and terra cotta.?New York Sun. W Panama sends about 5,000,000 cocoanuts a year to the United States. FOOTSTEPS OF THE FATHERS As Traced In Early Flle:$ of The Yorkville Enquirer NEWS AND VIEWS OF YESTERDAY Bringing Up Records of the Past and Giving the Younger Readers of Today a Pretty Comprehensive Knowledge of the Things that Most Concerned Generations that Have Gone I Before. ' i The first installment of the notes appearing under this heading was published in our issue of November 14, 1913. The notes are being prepared by the editor as time and opportunity permit. Their purpose is to bring Into review the events of the past for the pleasure and satisfaction of the older people and for the entertainment and instruction of the present generation. Having commenced with the year 1856, it is the desire of the editor to present from the records, a truthful and accurate picture of conditions as they existed immediately preceeding the Civil war. This will be followed by a review of the war period, including the names of York county soldiers who went io the war singly and in companies, and then will follow the events of the re-construction period and the doings of the Ku-KIux. All along the editor will keep in mind incidents of personal Interest, marriages and deaths of well known people, weather events and general happenings out of the ordinary. In the meantime persons who may desire further information about matters that may have been only briefly mtntioned are Invited to call at the office of the editor and examine the original tecords. THIRTY-SECOND INSTALLMENT Advertisements. January 5, I860.?Following is a list of the advertisements in today's paper. W. E. Rose?Wants to buy 35 or 40 good negroes for cash. J. M. Lowry?Offers reward to finder of child's gold bracelet. John L. Miller?Attorney at law. D. D. Moore?Offers reward for lost gold pencil case. J. Herndon?Gives notice that his mill has been overhauled and repaired. S. B. Meacham, secretary and treasurer?Gives notice of a 3 per cent dividend declared by the King's Mountain railroad, which will be payable on demand. Samuel W. Melton, attorney?Warns creditors of the estate of Dr. Samuel Wright to pay up. P. H. Flanagan of Columbia, offers $25 reward for the arrest of a runaway negro, named York. R. K. Thomas, secretary?Gives notice of the regular meeting of the Yorkville Lyceum, to be held next Monday evening. Walter B. Metts, C. E. Y. D.?Calls upon guardian committees and commissioners to make returns. ? Wm. M. Walker, surgeon dentist? Offers his services. F. H. Simril?Calls upon persons indebted to him to pay. S. R. Moore, Executor?Gives notice to the debtors and creditors of John S. Moore, deceased. S. R. and W. A. Moore?Give notice of the dissolution of the firm of J. 8. Moore & Sons, and of the organization of the firm of W. A. Moore & Co. J. D. Muller?Offers to sell and tune pianos. J. M. Ross, O. Y. D.?Publishes citation in re estate of Duncan McCraven; R. M. Wallace applicant for letters. Walter B. Metts, commissioner In equity?Advertises several tracts of land for sale. A. Brevard Brumby, principal?Advertises Carolina High school, Columbia. Richard Hare?Calls upon debtors to pay up. T. S. Jefferys, agent?Advertises the Home Insurance company of New York. Rev. J. Scrott Murray?Publishes announcement of Johnson Female academy at Anderson, S. C. Mr. Philbrick of Charleston?Advertises auction sale of books. R. S. Moore, treasurer?Calls upon teachers of free schools to render their accounts. Alfred Stilwell, S. Y. D.?Advertises sale of land under execution. Thos. Davles?Offers house and lot of sale. f. a. Glass, Columbia?uners dooks and stationery. S. E. Moore, C. C. C. Pis.?Gives notice of application of Mr. J. Durham for benefit of insolvent debtors act. W. P. Love?Offers planta-tion near Patterson Springs for sale. .E. A. Crenshaw?Offers woodland near Yorkvile for sale. Thos. H. Fentress?Offers fruit trees for sale. E. E. Davis?Advertises business school at Woodruff. D. O'Leary?Announces another new grocery. The following candidates are announced for Ordinary: John A. Brown, Jerome C. Miller, John G. Enloe. The following candidates are announced for tax collector: John F. O'Neal, Wm. I^awnson Brown, Capt. J. F. E. Quinn, Moses Lindsay, W. B. McConnell. C. C. Gwin, B. P. Boyd, Thomas Roach, John J. Wylie, Joseph C. Mitchell, Daniel D. Moore, Wylie L. Harris, S. S. Elam. George D. Ferguson, Chester?Advertises his services as jeweler. J. P. Aycock?Offers several tracts of land to he disposed of at private sale. I. ?. Jiarns & ^.o., oosion?vttini canvassers to sell sewing machines. E. M. Kirkpatriek?Advertises jewelry and watches. Dr. J. T. Walker. Chester?Surgeon dentist. Dr. B. M. Cobb?Offers his professional services to the people of Fort Mill and vicinity. J. Monroe Anderson, President?Advertises Yorkville Female college. E. Avery, Chairman board of trustees?Advertises Ebenezer academy. SV. W. Carothers, Principal?Yorkville Male academy. Major M. Jenkins and Col. A. Coward?King's Mountain Military school. Dr. B. M. Cobb?Fort Mill academy. Dr. Alfred Craven?Surgeon dentist. Melton & Melton?Attorneys at law. J. M. Adams, Rock Hill?Tinware. Kerrison & Leiding, Charleston?Importers of line dress goods. J. C. Chambers?Attorney at law. S. CI. Brown?Auctioneer. Wilson & Witherspoon?Attorneys at law. Allison & Bratton?Druggists and apothecaries. DeForrest, Armstrong & Co., New York?Wanisutta prints. Dr. C. H. Lambert, Rock Hill?The People's Drug Store. Walter Hovey, Charleston?Genuine kerosene oil. J. Ed Jeffreys?Wagon shop. York Drug Store. P. Funk?Mattress maker. Chafee, St. Amand & Croft, Charleston?Dealers in general merchandise. Agnew, lusher & Co., ChesterHardware and groceries. John Simpson, Chester?Cotton gins, threshers, etc. T. H. Smith, Intendent?Notice of t Atun to vao /)no IVff II laACO UUVi T. B. Withers, fort Mill?Notice to creditors. J. R Schorb?Photographer. James Barker?Advertises Arkansas lands. Forgartlen & Stllman, Charleston? Cash Dry Goods House. Chase, McKlnney & Co., Boston? Celebrated Copper Toe Shoes. H. W. Kinsman, 223 King's Street, Charleston?Curtain goods. Wood, Eddy & Co.?Lottery. Moore & Creps?Cabinet warehouse. Richard Hare?Yorkville Marble Yard. Williams & Kerr?Heating stoves. Louis Smith?Boot and shoe maker. W. P. McPadden?Carriages and buggies. J. Y. Ferguson?Blacksmith shop. Adams, McCorkle & Co.?Fall and winter goods. I* M. Grist?Agent for Singer sewing machines. January 12, 1860.?Married?On Wednesday, 21st. ]>ecember, by B. J. Patterson, Esq., VIr. R. H. Full wood, of Fort Mills to Miss Francis E. Harris, of York district. * The last arrival from Europe announces the d jath of the great historian Thomas llabington Macau lay. He sprang from humble parentage; but by the force cf his transccndant genius reached :he peerage of the British < realm. He began his literary career i as a poet and essayist. His "Lays of 1 Rome" must have Inspired him with the hope of the poet's crown; while his essay on Byron is conceded one of the justest and ablest estimates of the apostle of afflictions. The masterpiece i of his mind is his inimitable history of < England. He touched its pages with a mystic pen. The greatest regret attending his death will be that he leaves this history in an unfinished condition. The most of the English < histories are tainted with tory politics, i Macau lay was the champion of the i Whig or Liberal party. The student will regret that both sides are not fully defended to his understanding. Yet i he rests well. Peace to his ashes and fadeless laurels for his brow. i? Married?In Yorkvllle on Tuesday morning, 17th instant, by Rev. L. A. Johnson. Mr. Sample Alexander of Chester and MIsh Lucie H. Clawson of this place. In Chester district on the 22d ultimo, Mr. Robert Fennell and Miss Mary Lynn. In Chester on Tuesday, of last week, Mr. Wm. Cornwell and Miss Sallie Alexander. * * * i Joseph H. Black, Esq., formerly an , editor of The Enquirer is now editor | of the South Arkansas Democrat. I 1 The great sign of the times to ] which all others are subordinate is s hostility to the institution of slavery. There is not only a northern but a I southern wing to this faction. We ] have renewed evidence of this fact i with every mail that comes. Besides j the hundreds of cases which have been i brought before vigilance committees, the Rev. Daniel Worth a native of i XT A on/1 ? mlnlotor r\f 1 vjui11u1u, 11. V/.| auu u. iiiiiiiovvi v?|v. Gospel, who has been arraigned before the bar of public opinion and openly rejoices that he may follow in the wake of John Brown to martyrdom. Yet through the care of friends he has been able to give bail for his appearance at court in a bond of five hundred dollars. (To be Continued.) FRENCH GIRL8 AWAKEN Want to Have Something to Say In Choice of Husbands. The views of the modern French girl in regard to matrimony are undergoing a remarkable change. There was a time when she was content to accept the eligible parti chosen for her by her father and mother without question or comment, but now she is evidently awakening to the fact that it is an unfair matrimonial compact in which all the good qualities are expected from the wife, whilst in the husband most defects of character are counted as nil so long as he brings a good position and sufficient money to complete the bargain. The French girl of today is rebelling against this point of view?in fact. judging from the present trend of I < events, she bids fair, in the course of I, years, to vie with her American sister | in independence of spirit. No longer . is marriage her only aim in life, and so | she chooses carefully and requires , special qualities in the man she is going to wed. Recently a Paris paper set itself the task of finding out the HYench girls' ideal of a model husband by propounding a number of questions for unmarried girls. In the answers to these questions the modern demoiselle's ideas on marriage are clearly revealed. To the question, "Do you wish to marry?" the consensus of answers was "Yes," and as some emphatically put it. "Yes, of course." All were. Insistent on certain special 1 qualities they wished to find in the 1 man of their choice. Many urged the necessity of intelligence and energy? ' others looked for health, physical bal- 1 anee, and moral uprightness, whilst ' others again looked upon tenderness ' without sentimentality as a necessity. ' If a man shows that he can smile ( sweetly whilst struggling with a collar ' stud, or assumes a benign expression ' when trying to eat a half-cooked din- 1 ner; if he shows angelic patience should the dinner be half an hour late * ?or pays a huge milliner's bill with- ' out demur and refrains from criticis- < ing the household expenses, then let ? us feel sure that he will pass the test. ' ?New York Times. t pisfcllancousi grading. TILLMAN ON EATING Says Many Senators Dig Their Graves With Their T?eth. Senators have been discussing with unusual interest Senator Tillman's declaration In his address on his nonsmoking resolution, that he believed he could lengthen the life of every man In the chamber "if I could only get them to believe what I tell them and follow my advice." The South Carolina senator asserted his colleagues ate too much. "Since I was paralyzed four years ago and read my own obituary," he said, "twenty-one senators, including Vice President Sherman, most of them younger than I, have i died." A fitting epitaph, he said, for senators who have died in service would be "he lived not wisely, but too well, and killed himself eating." "There is no doubt to my mind that this great mortality among us is due to the way we live in Washington," declared Mr. Tillman. "There is a continuous succession of banquets, dinners and receptions. Automobiles and street cars are used by senators instead of walking, and pure air and sunshine are things of which we get too little." Continuing, Senator Tillman said: "Tobacco, I have been told by physicians, is a narcotic or sedative, while whisky is a stimulant, as everyone knows. Many men use both, and arc constantly on the journey from the garret to the cellar and back, being whip-sawed and their nerves racked by the constant conflict going on In their system, while the stimulant and the sedative contend for mastery. It is the abuse, not the use of whisky and tobacco that i3 so dangerous to health, for In moderation they are both harmless, I think. "Since my illness four years ago, 1 have learned more about the human body than during all the balance of my life put together, and I am sure I discovered some of the secrets of nature and laws of health of which most men know nothing whatever. The pity of it is that I had to ruin my health before I discovered those things and learned how to live rationally. Had I lived 10 years ago as I am doing now my health never would have broken down at all. "I owe what degree of recovery I have made?and I am constantly being told I look a great deal better, and I know it is so?to will power and self control in eating?the will power to exercise my muscles and nerves sufficiently to give them tone and keep the rust out of the joints. But the great pat help to my health arises from the | self-control which enables me to keep | from eating things I ought not to." Senator Tillman's resolution, unan- , imously adopted, forbids smoking dur- ( ing executive sessions. He said he had been forced to leave the chamber and the caucus room during secret sessions because he could not endure the fumes ( of tobacco. , WANNAMAKER'S FLIER ' i Will Keep on Building Until the Ocean is Crossed. itodman Wanamaker told Glenn H. Curtiss the other day that if the over- , ocean flier Mr. Curtiss is building, did not cross the Atlantic in the first at- ; tempt, he wanted to keep on trying i until the machine is piloted from i Newfoundland to the Irish coast in a ; dngle flight. ] Mr. Wanamaker does not want to < back a failure, Mr. Curtiss said, and i be is going to take no chances. He i expects to get the Lord Xorthcliffe i J50.000 prize, if several attempts have to be made. i Nothing that will make for the ulti- i mate success of the project Is being left undone. Mr. Curtlss and several < at his mechanics will spend a month i av more at Jhe starting place in Newfoundland. The huge flier will get several trials there and a small scout I aeroplane will be used to test wind .1 currents. It is probable that two or I more balloons will also be used in these tests. 1 The Wanamaker flier will be com- 1 pletely built and tried out at Ham- 1 mondsport, X. Y., according to Mr. 1 Curtlss. It has been suggested that the machine would have to be as- 1 3embled at the starting point in New- ! foundland to avoid the Wright patent 1 lecision. 1 "This transatlantic flier will not infringe on the patents held by Mr. 1 -It will be in- 1 fierently stable without the use of ' ilelerons. The Wanamaker machine ' a to be a liner, it is for straight thead, long distance ilying. We will not need aielerons for that. Of course ive do not expect to loop the loop or ;o fly around corners with it. i "Two machines of this type will be I built, one of them will be worn out i In the trials and the other will make i he trip." i There have been constant rumors t :hat on account of the recent patent < lecision in favor of Orville Wright Lhe Curtiss plant would be moved I ibroad. Mr. Curtiss made it plain 1 :hut he did not contemplate any such 1 move.?New York Times. ' NO COLOR LINE IN HAITI. ] Where the Black Man la Boat In the ' Little Island Republic. In Haiti, color prejudice as a prob- 1 em is nonexistent. There is no doubt ' hat prejudice Itself exists, but in a ' ~''rt kl" / tick# ontl tin nht riifll VP ' rillill l\U l/ljr <|uici miiu -m.,'orm. Any open expression of this feeling is so sharply resented that it is always safer to conceal it under a nloak of politeness. The "blancs," is the whites are called in Haiti, enjoy i certain prestige, due not so much to their color, as to the fact that all, sr nearly all whites here are more or ess capitalists, or hold well-paid positions. And in Haiti, like all over the world, money counts. This prestge, however, is by no means acceptid by the Haitians as a mark of racial luperiorlty, and any such interpretation is likely to receive a rude eonradiction. The arrogance of the European in \frica and the East would most likely 5e fatal to him were he to try and in- . lulge in it in this country. The writer. a colored man, sometimes recalls vith amusement, the pathetic remark j i white American once made to him \ while on a trip to America. "These people." said the American, referring to the Haitians, "like respect." His dignity as a white man must have received some rude shocks. I suggested to him that he might have given them some lessons while ashore. Without going into details I can vouch for the following incidents, showing the way in which Haitians resent an indignity: For a kick, a white man was shot dead; another was clubbed by the man whom he kicked; yet another was mobbed by workmen for kicking one of their number. Two captains were badly beaten for using contemptous expressions about the blacks; another "blanc" had his nose broken for the nM/v /vnltr /v# uurunr, civ;. x ucor ai c um; ovine ux the Instances that can be related of Haiti. Please note that in the first three instances the Haitians were men nf the laboring class. Indeed, to kick r>r slap a Haitian of the upper or middle class invariably means a resort to arms, and the death or severe injury nt one, or perhaps, both of the principals. The consequence of this is that in this country, where color indolence is so vigorously resented, the white residents are careful not to make a parade of it; for what's the use of expressing contempt of people ivhen you are likely to have to fight r*ach time you. do so, especially when he odds are so heavy against you? \nd then Haitian government administrators do not understand the dogma of "maintaining the prestige of he white man."?African Times. NO "CRIMINAL CLA88." Lombroso's Theory Shattered by British Investigator. Delated but expected shattering of the Lombroso theory that there exists a "criminal class" of the human race has come. Statistical information, the gathering of which began twelve years ago by Doctor Goring, a British medi cal expert, who has made criminology i special study, furnishes the hammer [)f demolition, says the Cincinnati Enquirer. Crime, contends the investlga- 1 lor, does not reveal itself in a man's autward visage. Measurements, made 1 sifter Lombroso's prescription, disclose : that the English prison inmate and lawbreaker possesses only one distinct, general mark of differentiation?he is deficient in height, weight stature and 1 mental capacity, as compared to the 1 rest of the community. In skull measurements the criminal does not differ perceptibly from the Oxford or Cambridge undergraduate student, the I mean head indexes being almost identical. Low foreheads do not connote criminality, nor, conversely, are high foreheads tokens of intelligence within. Curiously enough criminals who use force, such as thieves and burglars, are exceptionally puny, while those who use cunning and deceDtion. such as forgers and swindlers, are as pill and as heavy as the average man. Doctor Goring submits the explanation that the last named class is usually drawn from a better nourished and better housed portion of the population. In reasoning upon his statistical facts the British expert cites the valuable and even prepondering fact that height and weight are endowments which readily enable a man to obtain employment. Being deficient in them his chances for honest work are reduced. Pursing this acceptable conclusion, Dr. Goring Bhows that heredity in crime, so-called, follows the natural law of production, low stature being transmitted to chil- , dren by their parents. The same tables of laboriously compiled statistics indicate that the health of the criminal appears to have no efTect upon his disposition toward crime. As for drink, accredited universally as the greatest agent of criminality^ Doctor Goring finds that the labeling is unwarranted, except in the cases of violent offenses against the person. His final conclusion is, when viewed with the fine spun stuff of criminoligists of the hysterical school and only ! partly developed psychologists, absolutely startling upon first reading. "The thing which we call criminality and which leads to the perpetration of many, if not most, antl-social offenses today, is not Inherent wickedness, but natural stupidity." In other words, the lawbreaker is a fool. When the rewards of criminal habit or life are considered the soundness of this conclusion will grow in strength. The work of Doctor Goring will be welcomed by all students of these matters as the first attempt to arrive at results in criminology by the statistical treatment of facts which in a crude form, are without scientific ralue. , President Wilson and the Telephone. ?One of the pleasant features of beng president of the United States is the fact that one does not have to do uuch talking' over the telephone. Owng to that happy circumstance a presdent can save a great deal of wear ind tear on his temper In the course )f a day. Every effort Is made to shield the president from the deadly telephone. He talks over the phone to cabinet officers nearly every day, but that about ets him out. The average senator doubtless feels that he is a fairly important feature 5f the cosmos, and yet he is likely to find some difficulty in placing himself ntn telephonic communication with the president, u tne matter is ot me . utmost importance, that is considered ill the more reason why the president i should not talk about it over the I [ihone, and if it is not important, that, 1 too, is a perfectly valid reason, why he j should shun the phone. Occasionally a senator will grasp a | phont and ask for the president in an 1 urgent tone, intended to convey the mpression that the national honor de- 1 pends on the two holding an immedi- < liate conversation. But even then the < president's buffers make a concerted i effort to persuade the senator to send < -1 ~ *k?AiiorVi Arm c\f the Wh (tP i 11? uirssa^c iiuuubh */?v ?i*v ., ..... ? ttouse secretaries, or else write a note, i ir drop in and see the president face i o face. I Ordinarily the president will talk by ihone less than half a dozen times a t lay, and perhaps more than half of I hose calls will be initiated by himself, t ?Philadelphia Ledger. I I >Xiy By the addition of magnesia and in oxide an extremely elastic glass has ' >een brought out In France. THINGS BOYS KNOW Curious Things That Ail Youngstors Havs Faith In. There's a freemasonry of boyhood that extends from Maine to Oregon and from Michigan to Texas. Nobody passes the signs along, but the young Floridian and the Iowa youngster have the same superstitions, the same line of hunches and the same good omens as the boys in Utah and New Jersey. Every boy knows that a snake, mortally wounded at any hour of the day, will not die until the sun seta That rule has been proved by unlucky rep tiles from the Lakes to thp Gulf. Another bit of snake lore that the boys all know is that a hair from a horse's tail dropped into a pool of water, will, if Riven time, develop into a horsehair snake, wriRgly and mysterious. Mulberries left in water will also develop reptilian tendencies, as boys from time far past have known. A turtle will never let go until it hears the rattling of thunder, though it is possible to fool the tenacious "bird" with a good heavy club and an empty barrel. If you cut off a turtle's head it will toddle, headless, an exact, measured mile, before it wabbles over and dies. That bit of information has been the execution writ for thousands of turtles all over the United States. For a novice it might be difficult to induce the turtle tn nhlnirt* its head from the shell long enough for the execution, but with a certain magic jumble of words recited in its presence the turtle will at once respond to the cue and hasten the execution. The subject of luck makes all boys akin. If a horseshoe is found in the road the tinder has but to pick It up, make a wish, expectorate lustily upon the horseshoe, hurl it backward over his head and walk away whistling a certain tune. If he keeps on going, without looking back, the wish will be realized. If a horseshoe is not available, a perfectly round stone treated In the same way will produce similar results. That rule will work on all subjects but ene, and that is a wish that the school house will burn down. All sorts cf tricks of black magic have been tried without avail in that case. If one sees a load of hay and makes a wish while it is passing along the road, that, wish will come true. The first star at night is aiso a fulflller of wishes if the wish is prefaced with thin formula: Star bright, star light, first star I've seen tonight, I wish I may; I wish I might? Have this wish come true tonight. Every gray horse one sees is an omen of good luck if proper recognition is made. One must wet the tip of the forefinger, touch the palm of the hand and then hit tfte palm vigorously with the clenched hand. Count each gray horse this way until ninety-nine have been noted. Upon seeing the hundredth something of value may at once be found. In this game a gray mule counts ten votes. It is bad luck to kill a frog. Such an act affects the milk of the cow supplying the family of the youngster killing the frog and thus serves to convict the culprit at the dinner table. If one will catch a butterfly and bite off its head the biter will receive a suit of clothes the exact shade and coloring of the butterfly's wings. Boys do not care for the motley colors represented by some butterflies, but little girls sometimes secure fine, new dresses by taking advantage of the same rule. In order to catch a good string of fish In Virginia or Vermont, or anywhere else for that matter, It is only necessary to bait the hook with a nice, wriggly angleworm; make a wish and expectorate on the unfortunate bait nn?1 mla/ta lino in Vi n tiro tan bN all aiiu j/[(m.u me 11 iic in me natci. riou will respond almost Immediately. Snake feeders (dragon flies) along streams or in marshes Indicate to all boys the imminence of snakes. All boys take warning upon seeing this insect and give the snake which it is attending a wide berth. Nobody has ever seen a snake feeder arranging the snake's lunch, but it is known to be positively true that the Insect is the snake's chef. AH boys know that it is dangerous to go swimming during dog days, but the period of dog days may be narrowed to suit the matorial convenience of the individual. In other words, the dog days rule may be suspended by a vote of a good sized crowd of youngsters unable to resist the purling lure of the stream. The danger from snakes and turtles while swimming does not deter youngsters. for it is a well known fact that i snake cannot bite under water, ror the simple reason that the minute it jpens its mouth to nab the unsuspectng swimmer it chokes. The same rule ipplles to turtles. Another bit of swimming: lore is the remedy of boyhood for water in the ?ars. A flat sun warmed stone will Jraw all water right out of the ear of the boy who seeks relief. The universal knowledge of boys extends well into the field of materia medica. A bee sting or an Insect's bite may be instantaneously cured by placing the mingled Juices of three weeds ?any three?upon thed iscomforted portion of the anatomy. Ordinary cobweb is generally known to be a means of stopping the flow of blood when the lackknife goes wrong. If one has a tooth pulled and will refrain from putting one's tongue In the cavernous vacancy, a new tooth, .'ully crowned in resplendent gold, will trow there. The guild of boyhood also promulgates certain rules calculated to pro :ect the brethren from their foes. It is a known fact that If one calmy faces the onrushing ram, the fero:ious bull or even the belligerent bulllog, the animal thus frowned upon will be awed by the bravery manifest Hi and will refrain from the intended ittack. A good pair of legs and the nimble knack of climbing a tree or scaling a friendly fence will also serve :o save the day in such cases. A mad dog will not molest one who stands idly at the roadside and looks idly about. And if you ever happen to ?et caught by a bear the thing to do 8 to fall over, lie perfectly still and iold your breath. The bear will think you're dead, anyway, so what object ;ould he have in killing you??New fork Sun.